Jim Sands

[Brucie]

There was a Jim Sands who worked at WWIN in Baltimore in 1961. Would anyone know if this could be the same Jim Sands who worked at WLOB in Portland and various stations in Boston?

 

[Unregistered]

SAnds

I think it was a popular mic name in the 60's (meaning there were a few). 1961 sounds a bit early for Art Lang who was in NE markets in the 70's I think (but maybe).

 

[Unregistered]

Jim Sands (real name: XXXXXXXX) of Boston and Maine radio fame DID work in Virginia in the 60s for a while (Roanoke??), but I never heard about him working in Baltimore.

 

[nowradioguy]

I think it was a popular mic name in the 60's (meaning there were a few). 1961 sounds a bit early for Art Lang who was in NE markets in the 70's I think (but maybe).

Ah, the Sands of time.....

There was a Mike Sands who worked in RI at WICE 1290 and later WSNE 93.3. IIRC, his real name was Art Lang and he died in a car accident.

Jim Sands worked at WBZ and later at 1150 AM when the latter was oldies.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Ah, the Sands of time.....

Jim Sands worked at WBZ and later at 1150 AM when the latter was oldies.

I recall Jim Sands having a Saturday night oldies show on WHDH (850 AM) in the early '80s. He was at 1150 AM when it was WMEX oldies in the late '80s, then 1330 AM WRCA when it launched as "Show-Biz Radio" for a couple of years in the early '90s, and finally weekend nights and other shifts on WODS "Oldies 103.3" in the late '90s and early '00s.

 

[Unregistered]

I found verification of my earlier thread regarding Jim working in Roanoke, Virginia. The "Vox Jox" column of the May 7, 1960 Billboard magazine has the following item:

---Jim Sands, former morning man at WJAB, Portland, Maine, has returned to WSLS, Roanoke, Virginia, in the 7 to 11 AM slot.--

I didn't know that he had done two stints in Roanoke, however, but evidentially he did.